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Taki Onqoy Taki Onqoy 521 Years Later the Native Music of the Americas Survives! Kuyayky Children Orchestra Fellows and Special Guests present- Taki Onqoy! Premiering a repertoire of Andean and Latin American pieces arranged for classical performance. Don't Miss it! The Kuyayky Children's Orchestra is formed by South Florida children, between the ages of 9 and 18, who play traditional, classical, and original arrangements of Andean music with violins, cellos, trombones, cajones, tinyas, saxophones, pianos, guitars, mandolins, charangos and sikus. The orchestra is a project of the Kuyayky Foundation to showcase the complexity and beauty of Andean music to both new audiences and to new talents. The repertoire of the orchestra includes researched arrangements of yaravies, huaynos, mulizas, huaylarshs and valses criollos. The orchestra provides children of Latin American roots with a way to connect with their ancestral heritage and build their identity through music.

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Pabelona Studio's take of Miami Raymi OUR FOUNDATION Founded in 2003 the Kuyayky Foundation (KF) is a federally recognized non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Andean music and culture. Our mission is to support and encourage the study of Andean traditions while elevating the stature of Andean artists in different disciplines by providing new performing arts venues for them to develop and showcase their work. To this end we create concerts, documentaries, audio and video recordings, produce film festivals, lectures, workshops, and visual artworks that practice and disseminate Andean creativity. Our foundation has developed and produced a number of collaborative performing arts projects with international artists and international organizations: the dance and music Concert for Peru with the American Red Cross at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium (Miami), Kuyayky Live! (Baden, Switzerland) Kuyayky’s Xauxa Live at the NMAI (Washington DC), Charango Maestro Federico Tarazona in Concert at PAX (Miami), 20 Años Despues Kuyayky Regresa( Lima, Jauja,Peru) Yawar Chichhi: The Scissors Dance Live at the NMAI (Washington DC), ten Annual Benet Concerts for the Children of Jauja (Miami, Naples, and Basel), the 2012 Miami Inclusive Arts Festival(PAX), Alma en Boca featuring Eva Ayllon (Colony Theater in Miami Beach) Xauxa: Back to the Beginning (Broward Center for the Performing Arts), and Miami Raymi (Area Stage Theater). Our Ensembles: We have two well established ensembles, the Sumaj Tusuy Andean Dance Ensemble and the Kuyayky Children’s Orchestra. Both work to promote the study and practice of Andean music and dance by children and youths. Our long-term projects: MAHAC MAHAC’s mission will be to celebrate not only the past of Andean culture, but also the present. As such it intends to be a center for exhibition, research, and performance where Andeanists from around the world will be able to meet, study, learn from, and teach. Our foundation has also been directly involved in earthquake and poverty relief projects collaborating with the Latin American NGO Un Techo Para mi Pais to build 15 new homes in the Independencia, Humay and San Andres Districts in Peru. And has over the past eleven years reached more than 8 thousand impoverished children and mothers in the central Andean highlands of the Mantaro valley. To disseminate our work and research on Andean culture KF’s members have served as research consultants for both academic and corporate projects, most recently for FIU students doing ethnomusicology research in the Amazon, and for MTV News producers working on a story on the scissors dance. KF also uses web community building, social media marketing, social entrepreneurship and experience design to reach a worldwide audience. Creating static and dynamic content for its web-portal kuyayky.com, as well as by managing content on third party Web 2.0 platforms. Our foundation’s projects have been endorsed by academic institutions and scholars of Andean studies as well as by the Interamerican Development Bank’s Youth Leaders Program, the Smithsonian NMAI, and Peru’s National Institute of Andean, Amazonian and Afroperuvian Development (INDEPA)., among others.